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Post by Rodney Farber on Feb 5, 2024 18:57:51 GMT
At the end of the film, they all come together on Wards Island to swap the money for the drugs. With that much as stake, it's all done at once. There's not too much "honor among thieves" when there's half a million dollars at stake. Rewind the film 15 minutes or so. According to IMDB, Let's forget WHERE Sal drove the car; Let's focus on WHY was Sal driving the car. Sal and Charnier are on opposing teams. Charnier wouldn't be letting the drugs out of his possession without the money. There's nothing keeping Sal from stealing the car/drugs. Am I missing something?
Note: Whenever I'm in NYC at GCT, I always wonder what happened to the vendor at the Shuttle stop where Popeye ordered a grape drink (but walked on the train with an candy apple)
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 5, 2024 23:15:49 GMT
The novelty of the film seems to me the handheld city camera work and the chase. Otherwise--it is a "crime pays" kind of story. The point seemed to be to show why being a big crook was cool and being a city cop was not. Thus the story was shaped that way regardless of coherence or character logic. Because we see the cop who shoots the other cop--the idea that the crooks had it more "together" was hard to miss. The fact that they didn't rob each other was probably part of that message or desire to show them as more functional than the police.
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